Goal 4: Create and use standards to critique communication
14 March: Brainstorm community service topic. Find 1 article and 1 webpage that give information on your topic. Take notes on your topic. LAB- type 1 paragraph that defines your problem and cite sources. 15 March: LAB- Research the different types of communication (Pony Express, telegram, radio, phone, television, Internet, etc.). Create a PowerPoint that illustrates each of these types. Then explain the IMPACT each of these items had on the world. HOMEWORK- Read Act I of Romeo and Juliet. Complete Drama C-Notes
16 March: Discuss Act I of Romeo and Juliet. Choral read the Act I prologue. LAB- find 3 websites on a topic you're interested in. Screenshot the webpage into PowerPoint. Then grade the webpage (check minus, check, check plus) and say why you gave it that grade. (example:
17 March: Discuss Act II of Romeo and Juliet. Brainstorm all the different types of media. In groups, create posters that show ads, signs, instructions from all over the world. Your posters should include explanations as to how effective those pieces communicate their point. HOMEWORK- Read Act III of Romeo and Juliet. Complete Drama C-notes
18 March:Discuss Act III of Romeo and Juliet. LAB- create a PowerPoint that illustrates text to text, text to world and text to self connections with Romeo and Juliet.HOMEWORK- Read Act IV/V of Romeo and Juliet. Complete Drama C-notes
21 March:Discuss Act IV/V of Romeo and Juliet. LAB- Students will find 3 websites that have to do with Romeo and Juliet. They will copy and paste the website into the MLA formatted document, grade the website, and explain why they gave the website that grade. They will do this for each. (example:
) 22 March: Read a book review as a class. Underline the parts that you think were effective. Write why you think those parts were effective. LAB- in Publisher, write a review on a book or movie (example:
) 23 March: View and respond to the movie. Take notes on what was interesting and different from what you thought it would be. 24 March: Finish the movie. Make a chart of the five most important scenes in the play and explain why you think they're important. Argue for your scene to the class. Read and respond to a critical text analyzing Romeo and Juliet 25 March: Write a review of the movie Romeo and Juliet. In groups, create a project to show your understanding of Romeo and Juliet. Create a rubric for the projects as a class.
28 March: Pick a scene, write a paragraph that sums it up, a paragraph that gives your opinion and three things that you think made it an effective scene. In the reader's notebook, write additional stage directions for the balcony scene. Design/draw a set design. Staple your set design over the reader's notebook pages on your left hand side. 29 March: Present memorized Act I Prologues. Present Animoto projects. Assessment Review.
Goal 4: Create and use standards to critique communication
14 March: Brainstorm community service topic. Find 1 article and 1 webpage that give information on your topic. Take notes on your topic. LAB- type 1 paragraph that defines your problem and cite sources.15 March: LAB- Research the different types of communication (Pony Express, telegram, radio, phone, television, Internet, etc.). Create a PowerPoint that illustrates each of these types. Then explain the IMPACT each of these items had on the world. HOMEWORK- Read Act I of Romeo and Juliet. Complete Drama C-Notes
16 March: Discuss Act I of Romeo and Juliet. Choral read the Act I prologue. LAB- find 3 websites on a topic you're interested in. Screenshot the webpage into PowerPoint. Then grade the webpage (check minus, check, check plus) and say why you gave it that grade. (example:
17 March: Discuss Act II of Romeo and Juliet. Brainstorm all the different types of media. In groups, create posters that show ads, signs, instructions from all over the world. Your posters should include explanations as to how effective those pieces communicate their point. HOMEWORK- Read Act III of Romeo and Juliet. Complete Drama C-notes
18 March:Discuss Act III of Romeo and Juliet. LAB- create a PowerPoint that illustrates text to text, text to world and text to self connections with Romeo and Juliet. HOMEWORK- Read Act IV/V of Romeo and Juliet. Complete Drama C-notes
21 March: Discuss Act IV/V of Romeo and Juliet. LAB- Students will find 3 websites that have to do with Romeo and Juliet. They will copy and paste the website into the MLA formatted document, grade the website, and explain why they gave the website that grade. They will do this for each. (example:
22 March: Read a book review as a class. Underline the parts that you think were effective. Write why you think those parts were effective. LAB- in Publisher, write a review on a book or movie (example:
23 March: View and respond to the movie. Take notes on what was interesting and different from what you thought it would be.
24 March: Finish the movie. Make a chart of the five most important scenes in the play and explain why you think they're important. Argue for your scene to the class. Read and respond to a critical text analyzing Romeo and Juliet
25 March: Write a review of the movie Romeo and Juliet. In groups, create a project to show your understanding of Romeo and Juliet. Create a rubric for the projects as a class.
28 March: Pick a scene, write a paragraph that sums it up, a paragraph that gives your opinion and three things that you think made it an effective scene. In the reader's notebook, write additional stage directions for the balcony scene. Design/draw a set design. Staple your set design over the reader's notebook pages on your left hand side.
29 March: Present memorized Act I Prologues. Present Animoto projects. Assessment Review.
30 March: Goal 4 Assessment.
31 March: Lab- writing folder check in
1 April: NO SCHOOL